One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, the Award-Winning Play

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest is one of the most celebrated works in modern drama, winning rave reviews as a novel, Academy Awards as a film, and the Tony Award as a play. In an Oregon mental hospital, Nurse Ratched runs a disciplined ward where patients must follow her every rule. Then Randall McMurphy arrives, fresh from prison, and bets his new friends that he can unravel Ratched in one week. The play raises the need to question authority and attack the subtle institutional dulling of the human spirit.

The actor who played Randall Patrick McMurphy was terrific! The support cast was also really good but McMurphy was outstanding. We enjoyed every minute of the show and everyone near us to whom we spoke felt the same way. I'm glad we went!

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Directed by Artistic Director Brian Robert Harris and Produced by Dean Johnson, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest is a tale of oppression and discovery. Randle McMurphy, a rebellious convict, is transferred from a prison farm work to a mental hospital only to discover that it is controlled by the tyrannical head nurse, Nurse Ratched. Billy Bibbit, Chief Bromden, and other convicts suffer at the hands of Ratched’s humiliation, threats, and punishment… until McMurphy stages a revolt that won’t be forgotten.